I’ve often said that politics is only good for two things, rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies.  Il Duce Obama was an adherent to at least part of this doctrine, as he exhorted Hispanic voters to go to the polls to “punish your enemies,” i.e., Republicans who dared to suggest that the immigration laws really should be enforced.  I believe that this doctrine was at the heart of John McCain’s vote against a partial, limited, and probably hollow amendment of the fraud named the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare.  McCain was set up to be the hero, a role that he relishes.  Suffering from a brain tumor (which might explain a lot), he rode in from the West, despite his affliction, so that he might vote on the healthcare proposal before the Senate.  McCain cast the deciding vote on a procedural issue; whether to permit debate of the question in the Senate.  Now, as an aside, I have to wonder why this vote was necessary in the first place.  If the U.S. Senate really is the world’s greatest deliberative body, as it advertises itself, then should it really need a vote to decide whether it might be a good idea to actually talk about legislation that affects 1/6 of the U.S. economy?  I mean, this is one mess that even they can’t blame on the Russians.  As a further aside, if any of the 48 Democrats in the Senate really had the best interests of the American people in mind, then shouldn’t some of them at least have voted  to permit a discussion of this problem?  But I digress.  McCain’s preliminary vote even drew praise from President Trump, who rarely has had good things to say about the Senator.  John McCain was here to vote, even though he was gravely ill.  McCain would save the Republicans’ bacon, and permit them to at least pretend that whatever they passed proved that they weren’t completely inept, right?  Wrong!  Because, even though he got reelected last November on a pledge to repeal Obamacare, which he said “is failing Arizonans,” and even though he told voters he was “leading the fight to stop Obamacare,” he immediately turned around and voted against the so-called “skinny repeal” of Il Duce Care.  Last February, McCain even introduced a bill to “fully” repeal ObamaCare and replace it with a “free-market approach that strengthens the quality and accessibility of care.”  I guess he didn’t mean it.  Two pretend Republicans from Alaska and Maine also voted “No,” so McCain was the deciding vote that kept Obamacare alive.  Yes, Mr. President, that knife in your back bears the fingerprints of one John Sidney McCain.  And in retrospect, that shouldn’t have been surprising.  Two dynamics are at work here.  The first is the doctrine mentioned above, politics is good for punishing one’s enemies.  Let’s face it, there never has been any love lost between Donald Trump and John McCain.  Trump insulted McCain during the campaign, and McCain insulted Trump.  The difference is that Trump insulted a lot of people in both Parties, then moved on and forgot it.  In August 2016, Ted Cruz and Trump looked ready for a steel cage death match after Trump insulted Cruz’s wife and father.  I’m not suggesting that they’ve become buddies, but they now are working together trying to get things done.  Politics/strange bedfellows, etc.  But John McCain didn’t forget.  Call it revenge, call it spite, call it brain tumor, who knows?  Whatever it is, it has been clear that Republican John McCain has dedicated himself to the destruction of a Republican President.  McCain’s attitude is, in part, motivated by immigration policy.  McCain, the leader of the Gang of Eight don’t forget, doesn’t want to enforce the laws or secure the border.  People who support such things are “crazy” according to the Senator.  He said so.  McCain was particularly rankled by a Trump campaign rally in Arizona.  Why?  It might hurt McCain’s reelection.  “This performance with our friend (Trump) out in Phoenix is very hurtful to me,” McCain said. “Because what he did was he fired up the crazies.”  Damn those crazies who expect the law to be enforced.  We don’t need no stinkin’ green cards!  Does this mean McCain doesn’t care about the tens of thousands of illegal aliens streaming across our southern border.  No.  It bothers him because it might encourage voters to be conservative.  He said so.  “People who otherwise might be more centrist are angry about this border situation.”  Yeah, Senator, maybe they’re angry about the rapes, robberies and killings being committed by these illegals.  You know, that “situation.”  But McCain wasn’t done.  After the election, he compared Trump’s attacks on the media with the conduct of dictators.  He went to Europe in February to undermine the President’s position with our NATO allies.  He announced that Il Duce Obama was a better steward of U.S. foreign policy, which is confusing.  McCain never met a Russian he didn’t want to attack, but President “Lead from Behind” was better?  That’s either real hate or brain damage talking.  It’s real hate, otherwise, why would McCain send an aide to Europe last December to get a copy of the phony Fusion GPS/KGB Trump blackmail dossier, then personally deliver it to James Comey?  First of all, he could have saved the plane fare, and gotten a copy of the dossier from Hillary.  Her people already paid for it, and decided it was too phony for even them to use against Trump.  Then again, what to make of the fact that McCain and Comey were the only two people who actually believed the B.S. in the KGB disinformation dossier?  If it’s not real hatred, then Comey may need an MRI too.   The second dynamic at play here goes far beyond John McCain.  Call it the revenge of the swamp creatures.  A President who is an outsider to both Parties who promises to fire 20% of the federal workforce is like showing a vampire the cross.  Embedded employees are apt to leak damaging things.  Look at what’s happening.  Politicians are likely to try to show the outsider who’s boss.  A properly motivated Congress can control any Executive.  Justice Scalia told me that.  If it gets the Congress to work together for the betterment of the people, that would be a good thing.  But that’s not happening.  Instead, Congress has slowed the approval process for Trump nominees to the point where, at this rate, it will take 11 years to fill all the jobs.  Meanwhile holdover swamp creatures stay behind and leak.  To quote a President Trump tweet, “Sad.”